Ascaris lumbricoides infection and its relation to environmental factors in the Mbeya region of Tanzania, a cross-sectional, population-based study

Steffen Andreas SchüleDivision of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich LMU, Munich, Germany Institute for Medical Bioinformatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Department of Social Epidemiology, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, GermanyPLoS ONE 9:e92032. 2014

..To identify high risk areas for intervention, it is necessary to understand the effects of climatic, environmental and socio-demographic conditions on A. lumbricoides infection...

Reasons for false-positive lipoarabinomannan ELISA results in a Tanzanian population

..Human infections are associated with these events, with a fatality rate of 0.5-2%. Since the virus is able to use many mosquito species of temperate climates as vectors, it has a high potential to spread to outside Africa...

A trial of the effect of micronutrient supplementation on treatment outcome, T cell counts, morbidity, and mortality in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis

..Supplementation of pregnant and lactating HIV-infected women with vitamins B, C, and E might be a useful, inexpensive intervention to decrease the burden of malaria in children born to HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa...

Virological efficacy of 24-weeks fozivudine based regimen in ART-naïve patients from tanzania and côte d'Ivoire

..Fozivudine (FZD) is a ZDV pro-drug which is activated intracellularly to ZDV-monophosphate especially in mononuclear cells but not in bone marrow cells. FZD promises improved myelotoxicity and once daily dosing...

Low sensitivity of a urine LAM-ELISA in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis